On May 9, 11:19 am, modius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things have really come to a head with the change in licensing of the > extJS toolset to GPL. Without an exception to their license we would > need to discontinue using the toolkit or also change to GPL. This has > triggered a lot of soul searching internally, and discussion about the > GPL in general. Do we dump extJS? Do we move to GPL? If we move to > GPL, what commercial options are needed? Are we running the right > license model at all? And so on.
As long as you don't upgrade to ExtJS 2.1 you wouldn't be required to use the GPL :) Or if you need to upgrade to ExtJS 2.1, perhaps you could buy one of their OEM/Reseller licenses and still be able to offer FarCry under the CPL. Those points aside... My thoughts on the GPLv3 are mixed, leaning towards not favourable. One the one hand it seems like a good idea to encourage more code to be contributed to the community. However, "Distribution" seems to be something as simple as copying a file from one project which was developed for client A and using it in a project for client B, meaning you are then obliged to make the whole source of both of your projects available? And therefore Dual Licensing just feels like a burden because you have to be careful with what you do with your source: code re-use flys out the window unless you are willing (and able) to pay. I realise Daemon need to turn a profit while at the same time trying to grow a community, but I don't know if Dual Licensing is the way to do it or whether it will help the community. It's a very tough call to make and I don't envy your position Geoff :) cheers, Justin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
